Pete Shelley

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Pete Shelley (born Peter McNeish, April 17 1955 in Leigh, Lancashire) is an English singer, songwriter and guitarist, best-known as the leader of Buzzcocks, one of the first generation punk rock groups from England. <p>Buzzcocks were formed by Shelley and Howard Devoto shortly after the two met at an electronic music society at Bolton Institute of Technology (now the University of Bolton) and travelled together to London to see The Sex Pistols. They debuted in 1976 in Manchester, opening for the Sex Pistols. <p>In 1977, they released their first EP, Spiral Scratch, on their own independent label, New Hormones. Afterward, Devoto left the group. Shelley continued to front the band, creating such quintessential punk singles of the period as "Orgasm Addict", "What Do I Get?", and "Ever Fallen in Love?" along with three LPs, Another Music in a Different Kitchen (1978), Love Bites (1978), and A Different Kind Of Tension (1979), until difficulties with their record company, and a dispute over...